Aplikanusa installs new communication system

Aplikanusa installs new communication system

JAKARTA (JP): PT Aplikanusa Lintasarta has spent about Rp 30
billion on its new data communication network, the business-
division general manager said yesterday.

Arya Damar said Lintasarta had installed a Frame Relay data
network in 17 cities.

He said the Frame Relay network would back up its data
communication services.

Lintasarta provides network applications for bank's reporting
systems, credit card authorizations, shared automated teller
machines and Internet services. It also provides data
communications for digital data networks and Very Small Aperture
Terminals.

"Next year, we are going to expand our service to another 17
cities," Lintasarta director for development Wityasmoro Sih told
the company's seminar on Frame Relay yesterday.

Frame Relay is a high-speed inter-networking system used for
LAN and IBM host-system interconnections through point-to-point
or point-to-multipoint linkages, Arya said.

"It provides users with high-speed access rates from 64 Kbps
(kilobytes per second) to 2 Mbps," he said.

Arya said an institution with more than three branches could
use the system to save about 40 percent of its monthly
communication costs.

He said Frame Relay was developed to tailor customer-specific
requirements for most fields, with banks being major users.

Lintasarta, founded in 1988, is 25 percent owned by PT Telkom
and 18.8 percent by PT Indosat (both are state-owned
telecommunications operators), 7.5 percent by PT Telekomindo, 45
percent by banking staff foundations and 3.7 percent by
cooperatives. (04)